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Definition of opisthosoma in English: opisthosomanoun əˌpɪsθəˈsəʊmə Zoology The abdomen of a spider or other arachnid. Example sentencesExamples - The long rear part is the opisthosoma, which can be further divided into a broad flattened pre-abdomen consisting of seven segments, and a narrower and more cylindrical post-abdomen of only five segments.
- The opisthosoma consists of 10 freely articulating segments, divided into a preabdomen of seven and a postabdomen of three.
- The body is divided into a front part - the cephalothorax or prosoma, and a rear part, the abdomen or opisthosoma.
- Of the eight specimens, three are almost complete and five consist only of the prosoma and part of the opisthosoma.
- The chelicerate body plan is characterized by two tagmata, the prosoma, including head structures, and the opisthosoma.
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